History Awesome / Equilibrium

** And just before ''that'' when he goes into a gunfight against a bunch of {{Mook}}s. Tosses two magazines into the hallway. Goes in guns blazing. Empties the first pair of mags, bends his wrists, and gets new magazines from devices in his sleeves. Empties them. Sticks the guns down on the two things he threw out, which were magazines weighted to stand up straight. Empties them. Drops the guns and grabs a dropped assault rifle. Kills the rest of the {{Mook}}s. Drops the assault rifle. Walks into the office, gets surrounded by {{Elite Mook}}s with katanas. Takes one from one of them and kills them all with it. That's something like 30 kills, all with four individual weapons, only two of which he walked in with.

* Let's just say that the entirety of ''Equilibrium'''s soundtrack is awesome, because of how well it sets that dark, tragic mood, alongside a few tracks that have a religious choral backing. Not to mention an all-out kick-ass action part, specifically near the end.

* Just about every fight Preston gets into radiates awesome but the winner is easily his fight against [[spoiler:Chancellor [=DuPont=]. [[GunKata At a range of two feet]]]].
** And just before that when he [[spoiler:slices off Brandt's face]].
** And just before ''that'' when he goes into a [[spoiler:gunfight against a bunch of {{Mook}}s. Tosses two magazines into the hallway. Goes in guns blazing. Empties the first pair of mags, bends his wrists, and gets new magazines from devices in his sleeves. Empties them. Sticks the guns down on the two things he threw out, which were magazines weighted to stand up straight. Empties them. Drops the guns and grabs a dropped assault rifle. Kills the rest of the {{Mook}}s. Drops the assault rifle. Walks into the office, gets surrounded by {{Elite Mook}}s with katanas. Takes one from one of them and kills them all with it. That's something like 30 kills, all with four individual weapons, only two of which he walked in with.]]
*** [[spoiler:Actually five, if you count the scabbard he took off a mook, deflected a sword with at the perfect angle to sharpen the scabbard, and then impaled two mooks on opposite sides of him - one with a sword, one with the aforementioned sword-holding outfit accessory.]]
*** In the Hall of Mirrors, he [[spoiler:fluidly flips an assault rifle several hundred degrees in the air and starts firing, a shot of the film from within the office depicting him standing amongst the bodies still holding the rifle afterwards.]]
*** [[spoiler: When he's surrounded in the end in [=DuPont=]'s office and being taunted at the same time, but there's a close up of his face displaying a confident half-smile before he brutally massacres the mooks. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's determined to see it through, practically laughing in the face of danger and the bullshit that [=DuPont=] is saying. Now that's badass.]]

*** Made all the more awesome in that it was all for [[spoiler:the [[PetTheDog puppy.]]]]
*** Actually, no, it wasn't all for [[spoiler:the puppy]]. If he would not have killed them, they would have gone back and reported [[spoiler:his sense crime]] to their superiors. Yes, he [[spoiler:did a sense offence]] BECAUSE of [[spoiler:the puppy]], but that's not why he killed the mooks.
* Can we take a minute to appreciate that two children who appear to be under ten [[spoiler: fooled a cleric specially trained to detect emotion into thinking they were still medicated?]]

--> '''Preston:''' No... ''(polygraph flatlines)'' Not without incident.

** And just before that when he [[spoiler:slices off Taye Diggs's face]].

--> '''Preston:''' No... [*polygraph flatlines*] Not without incident.

*** [[spoiler: When he's surrounded in the end in {{DuPont}}'s office and being taunted at the same time, but there's a close up of his face displaying a confident half-smile before he brutally massacres the mooks. He knows exactly what he's doing and he's determined to see it through, practically laughing in the face of danger and the bullshit that {{DuPont}} is saying. Now that's badass.]]

* Just about every fight John Preston gets into in ''{{Equilibrium}}'' radiates awesome but the winner is easily his fight against [[spoiler:Chancellor [=DuPont=]. [[GunKata At a range of two feet]]]].

*** My favourite awesome moment from the [[spoiler: Hall of Mirrors was the way he fluidly flipped an assault rifle several hundred degrees in the air and started firing, a shot of the film from within the office depicting him standing amongst the bodies still holding the rifle afterwards.]]

*** [[spoiler:Actually 5, if you count the scabbard he took off a mook, deflected a sword with at the perfect angle to sharpen the scabbard, and then impaled two mooks on opposite sides of him - one with a sword, one with the aforementioned sword-holding outfit accessory.]]

* One line caps it all off: '''Preston:''' No... *polygraph flatlines* Not without incident.

** The moment when John Preston, his dedication to the current order visibly wavering, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJOF7jhgAQ finally makes up his mind.]] He looks up, determination in his eyes, and hits the barrels of the guns pointing at him. The guns spin in midair, he grabs the handles, and blasts the mooks in the heads. That moment is the definition of awesome, and the (short and brutal) fight that follows only augments the awesomeness.

* Can we take a minute to appreciate that two children who appear to be under ten [[spoiler: fooled a cleric specially trained to detect emotion into thinking they were still medicated?]]

* One line caps it all off: '''Preston:''' No... * polygraph flatlines* Not without incident.

** And just before ''that'' when he goes into a [[spoiler:gunfight against many {{Mook}}s. Tosses two magazines into the hallway. Goes in guns blazing. Empties the first pair of mags, bends his wrists, and gets new magazines from devices in his sleeves. Empties them. Sticks the guns down on the two things he threw out, which were magazines weighted to stand up straight. Empties them. Drops the guns and grabs a dropped assault rifle. Kills the rest of the {{Mook}}s. Drops the assault rifle. Walks into the office, gets surrounded by {{Elite Mook}}s with katanas. Takes one from one of them and kills them all with it. That's something like 30 kills, all with four individual weapons, only two of which he walked in with.]]

* Can we take a minute to appreciate that two children who appear to be under ten [[spoiler: fooled a cleric special trained to detect emotion into thinking they were still medicated.]]

* One line caps it all off: '''Preston:''' No... * polygraph flatlines* Not without incident.

* One line caps it all off: '''Preston:''' No... * polygraph flatlines* Not without incident.

''[[OhCrap exactly]]'' [[OhCrap what that means]]. "Not without incident."

*** Want to make it even more awesome? Synch up Super Massive Black Hole by {{Muse}} us to that scene (starting just after the [[Mook]]'s 'Oh... shit...') and watch the scene go to weapons-grade awesome!
** For this troper it was the moment leading into the fight, when the needle goes flat, and the technician [[OhCrap knows]] ''[[OhCrap exactly]]'' [[OhCrap what that means]]. "Not without incident."

** And just before ''that'' when he goes into a [[spoiler:gunfight against many {{Mook}}s. Tosses two clips into the hallway. Goes in guns blazing. Empties the first pair of clips, bends his wrists, and gets new clips from devices in his sleeves. Empties them. Sticks the guns down on the two things he threw out, which were clips weighted to stand up straight. Empties them. Drops the guns and grabs a dropped assault rifle. Kills the rest of the {{Mook}}s. Drops the assault rifle. Walks into the office, gets surrounded by {{Elite Mook}}s with katanas. Takes one from one of them and kills them all with it. That's something like 30 kills, all with four individual weapons, only two of which he walked in with.]]

** And just before ''that'' when he goes into a [[spoiler:gunfight against many {{Mook}}s. Tosses two things into the hallway. Goes in guns blazing. Empties the first pair of clips, bends his wrists, and gets new clips from devices in his sleeves. Empties them. Sticks the guns down on the two things he threw out, which were clips weighted to stand up straight. Empties them. Drops the guns and grabs a dropped assault rifle. Kills the rest of the {{Mook}}s. Drops the assault rifle. Walks into the office, gets surrounded by {{Elite Mook}}s with katanas. Takes one from one of them and kills them all with it. That's something like 30 kills, all with four individual weapons, only two of which he walked in with.]]

*** Want to make it even more awesome? Synch up Supermassive Black Hole's 'Muse' us to that scene (starting just after the [[Mook]]'s 'Oh... shit...') and watch the scene go to weapons-grade awesome!